[MPlayer-users] .ASX files

[Ergzay]

On 2005/10/10, at 18:52, Larry wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:25:09AM +0200, Sebastian Kr?mer wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 00:17, Larry wrote:
>>> Is there anyway to get mplayer to play windows .asx files?
>>> These are the files with the link within the text file.
>>>
>>> I know I can get the link out of them and use that with mplayer
>>> but this is for my wife when she is online and she has to be
>>> able to play the file as is.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do this?
>>
>> Afaik, .asx files are playlist. Let your wife try `mplayer -playlist 
>> <file>`.
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>
> Didn't work.
>
> Thanks

Then you're doing something wrong or your version of mplayer doesn't 
support -playlist correctly. If you run mplayer from the command line 
using `mplayer -playlist whatever.asx` it WILL play that .asx file.

Ergzay